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Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin
Matmonim means "hidden treasures." In less than 20 minutes each episode highlights, develops and explains one actionable insight from the Daf Yomi Talmud study cycle. People around the world, from uninitiated seeker to seasoned scholar, are finding inspiration, meaning, and relevance in the wisdom that the Matmonim exposes from every page of Talmud. Matmonim will give you skills to deepen your own learning to get greater satisfaction from the effort you are investing. The podcast is given as a…
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Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 46 Ho'ill: - Factoring Future Possibilities into Present Reality
In an almost quantum mechanics kind of a way, the idea of Ho'ill factors future possibilities into present Halachik realities. This idea is applied here both…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 45 - The Power of Transformation: Yeast vs. Bread
We discuss the unique prohibition of yeast on Pesach even if it is a chemical unfit for human consumption. This piece of Talmud is one of the foundations for…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 44 The Root of Flavor - Ta'am Ke'Ikkar
Just as chemical mixtures and compounds behave in particular ways, so do halachik mixtures. These include mixtures of kosher and non-kosher foods. We identify…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 43 - Women and Timebound Mitzvot
Many reasons are given why women are not obligated to keep seven groups of timebound mitzvot. Most of the reasons often feel like platitudes to women for a…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 41 - Just Say What You Mean
We discuss the idea of a prohibition stated in general terms (לאו שבכללות) and learn principle of clear communication and the difference between knowing…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 40a - Knowing vs. Caring
Caring about someone or something and intentionally protecting them from harm, adds a quality to one's relationship with them far beyond merely knowing that…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 39a - What it means to be Jewish
The daf today concerns itself with the various different vegetables suitable for use to fulfil the mitzvah of Marror on Pesach night. Yet, as we mine for…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 38 - Why? vs. What For?
In this episode we learn about two intangible qualities needed for Matza, ownership and intentional protection. Then we explore the distinction between the…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 37- Matza and Life - The Secret Ingredient
Today's Daf is rather dry and technical, yet we can still discover the hidden treasures by approaching it a little more artistically. In this episode we…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 35b-36a - Matza-Ashira: Rich Bread-Poor Bread
We think of wealth and poverty as relating to a socio-economic situation. But richness and poorness can also describe objects. What constitutes a rich or a…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 34 Israel vs. Babylon
After examining the transformative power of immersion we discuss the impact that the atmosphere and culture of Babylon had on its Torah scholarship, and why…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 33a Coat & Tie - Why?
This episode explores the importance of one's image authentically reflecting the essence of who we are. This capacity to manifest a spiritual essence in a…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 32b Gift or Payment?
Based on the first Tosfot on 32b, we explore the difference between Netinna (giving) as Tashlumin (payment) and Netinna as gifting. Tashlum means making whole…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 31a - Community
This episode explores the depth and breadth of the law of Rabbi Nattan (Shi'abuda deRabbi Nassan) giving a creditor the right to claim directly from his…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 30 The Day After
This episode deals with two comments by Rava, the great Rosh Yeshiva and Rav of Mechoza in Babylon, in connection with the practice of the Babylon depositing…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 29 - The Value in Futures
Exploring the subtle difference between isurei hana'ah (commodities from which the Torah prohibits us from having any benefit) that have no present value but…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 26a - Fragrance and other Aesthetic Experiences
The Tosfot Harosh reveals an understanding in Rashi and the Rambam that yields insight as to how and why Halacha deals with human experience even where this is…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 25 - The Value of a Life
A new insight in Rashi about the limitations of the injunction "vechai bahem" - Live by Torah revealing the impossibility for the human being to evaluate the…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 24b Pleasure is Nourishing
The episode explores the relationship between eating and other forms of pleasure. By analyzing two versions of a statement by Rabbi Avahu in the name of his…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 23a More is Less
This episode teaches how to mine significance from technical passages of Talmud. Exploring the different methods of interpretation of the Chachamim and R…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 22b Gratitude & Honor
We show different qualities of honor to different personalities: Parents, scholars and one's own rebbe (teacher/mentor). Your own rebbe is the person…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 21b - Economic Value
Highlighting a difference in the views of Rashi and R Peretz, we explore how economic value in a commodity can be destroyed by rabbinic legislation.
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 19 - Hand washing, why?
Hands are treated uniquely in Halacha and we wash them a lot! We wash in the morning, for davening (prayer), before meals, after meals, and the Kohanim wash…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 18 Always go to the Source
The Torah will at times provide a source for a law that we can just as easily extrapolate using the method of Kal VaChomer - learning the more obvious from the…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 17 The Power of Pure Thinking
There are two categories of Tum'ah: 1) Tumat Haguf which, although not a physical substance but rather a conceptual one, behaves like a physical substance in…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 16 Emptiness is Contagious
One dimension of Tumah is a negative energy that attaches itself to places that have been vacated of sanctity that they previously contained. Tumah, as we…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 15 - Resolving Doubt
Being human, we seldom have the complete picture. Even if we know all the available facts from a reality perspective, we are usually missing perspectives from…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 13-14 - Nuanced Worlds
We observe physical reality by means of physical dimensions. Living in the world of physical reality we measure everything and even value most things…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 10 - Living in Paradox
It can happen that two principles, each of which is true in an absolute sense, can not be reconciled. (A) can be true and (B) can be true but sometimes (A) +…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 11 - Fear
On Hoshana Rabba we pray to be protected from Behalla, which as we see in this episode means fear of loss. Fear of loss can lead people to behave in…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 12 - Dancing to Nature's Beat
Time and timing are two different, but connected, ideas. Time is what we use to synchronize events. Timing is the natural rhythm of nature such as the movement…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 9 - Halacha: Truth & Reality
This episode further develops the idea of how Truth and Reality are different. Science deals with Reality. Torah deals with Truth. Reality is about objects…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 8 - Focus & Diffusion
There is a difference between Truth (in an absolute sense) and reality. Reality is empirical knowledge; that which we perceive with our five senses. In the…
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David LapinPesachim 7 - Seeking and Searching
This episode, an introduction to the Matmonim series, explores why we extrapolate some of the laws of bedikat hameittz from the verse dealing with the search…